menstruating woman in islam

Menstruation does not hinder any acts of worship at all, including prayers, fasting, and reading the Quran. As far as the Quran is concerned, the period prevents women only from having sex with their husbands.

Allah has made all the restrictions or prohibitions in the Qur'an. For example, for salah, one should pray, once complying with what is stated in the following verse:

"Believers, when you prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands to the elbows; wipe your heads and wash your feet to the ankles. If you are in a state of ceremonial impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill, or on a journey, or one of you has relieved himself, or have been in contact with women, and find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand, and rub your faces and hands with it. Allah does not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favour to you, that you may be grateful." (Qur'an 5:6)

If we ponder on this verse the conditions that Allah specifies which believers should meet before performing salah. This would be a suitable place to mention the restriction for menstruating women if Allah wished so - that believing women should wait till they finish their menstruation, yet it is not found there nor anywhere else in the Qur'an. Same scenario can is found with the verses on fasting where Allah has not prohibited believing women from fasting during menstruation.

Allah does not consider women, his creation, as spiritually impure during menstruation anywhere in Qur’an.

There is no such prohibition in the Quran. There are however non-Quranic sources and people telling you what to do or not to do and I suggest you disregard them and follow the word of God alone.

Prohibiting women from carrying out their religious obligations is quite widespread. This has nothing to do with Islam and is an innovation meant to divert people from the path of salvation. Same is the case with all Abrahamic religions today including Islam. Man made innovations have distorted the face of the religion. If everyone were to follow just the Quran and only the Quran, it would feel like a totally different religion altogether.

The only people exempt from fasting are those who are ill or are traveling who shall then substitute the same number of days at another time to compensate the days missed during Ramadan and also those who can't fast because they find it extremely difficult are exempt by way of substituting feeding one poor person per day of breaking the fast.

2:184 Specific days (are designated for fasting); if one is ill or traveling, an equal number of other days may be substituted. Those who can fast, but with great difficulty, may substitute feeding one poor person for each day of breaking the fast. If one volunteers (more righteous works), it is better. But fasting is the best for you, if you only knew.

There is no prohibition on fasting while menstruating.

Consider what God tells us about following non Quranic sources:

Which Hadith, other than God and His revelations, do they uphold? [45:6]

The Quran is not a fabricated Hadith; ...it details everything. [12:111]

Some people uphold vain Hadith to divert others from the path of God. [31:6]

The only Sunna to follow shall be God's Sunna. [17:77, 33:62, 48:23, 6:114]

Equality of Men and Women

33:35. The submitting men, the submitting women, the believing men, the believing women, the obedient men, the obedient women, the truthful men, the truthful women, the steadfast men, the steadfast women, the reverent men, the reverent women, the charitable men, the charitable women, the fasting men, the fasting women, the chaste men, the chaste women, and the men who commemorate GOD frequently, and the commemorating women; GOD has prepared for them forgiveness and a great recompense.

Finally as I always point out:

Crucial Advice

17:36. You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.

EDIT: this does not mean that women who are menstruating cannot make use of the leeway God has provided for people who face difficulty but it is for the woman to decide and not for anyone to impose as a blanket ban or law.

At the end of the day, we have to decide on an individual basis and hope what we do falls within God’s gracious acceptance :)

Source: Quran, The Final Testament

 WOMEN CAN ACT ALL FORMS OF WORSHIP IN THEIR MENSTRUAL CYCLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH QUR'AN

Menstruation doesn't mean unclean (junub), it is just a discomfort period of women. The fact that women who have period can't enter the mosques and can't worship is totally a tradition of bigots. This thought has no value in the Quran because it is a satanic practice.'' And they ask you about the menstruations? Say: ”It is harmful, so retire yourselves sexually from the women during the menstruations, and do not approach them until they are cleansed. When they are cleansed, then you may approach them as Allah has commanded you.” Allah loves the repenters and He loves the cleansed. ''[ Qur'an,2:222 ] In many translations of the verse, the word "tahare" has been translated as cleansing. However, God has defined the condition of menstruation not as dirt but as an affliction. Then it would be more appropriate to translate the verb "yetherna", which derives from the word "tahare" here, as 'get rid of' rather than cleansing. Because it can not be cleaned from suffering, discomfort, it can be got rid of.
As it can be seen from the verse that Allah has only prohibited sexual intercourse with a menstruating woman but apart from that there is no prohibition of not worshiping.
 Therefore, all informations in the name of religion that every muslim man and woman will need throughout life, is available in the complete Qur'an. All issues that Allah hasn't banned in the Quran are free because looking for a new source apart from the Quran means polytheism.

''...Nothing have We omitted from the Book...'' [Qur'an,6:38]

Saying that a topic hasn't been in the Quran but it has been in the hadith means being opposed to Quran because '' The word of the Lord is also quite complete (true) in terms of justice and righteousness...

'' [Qur'an,6:115] ''...Allah doesn't share His Command with any person whatsoever. [ Qur'an,18:26] , ''... the Command is for none but Allah... '' [Quran,12:40]

 BLEEDING DOES NOT INVALIDATE WUDU ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN

Religion (islam) has been completed in the Quran and every rules that we have to obey have been explained in it. But, some people have added some thoughts into islam that contradict with Quran. For instance; bleeding does not invalidate wudu according to the Qur'an but in the bigot's fabricated religion, bleeding invalidates wudu and beside this there are too many things and conditions that invalidate wudu.
Whereas in the Qur'an, wudu (ablution) can be invalidated by only the toilet needs and sexual relations. (Surat al-Maide, 6: Surat an-Nisa, 43). Our Lord has not given difficulties to his servants in religion.
'' ... He (Allah) has chosen you and has not placed any difficulty upon you in the religion. [It is] the religion of your father, Abraham... '' [Qur'an,22:78]
 There is only one islam in the Qur'an. Superstitions, rumors and fabricated hadiths are the greatest obstacles in front of the true islam. As a blessing from our Lord, Islam offers a very easy, very beautiful and very comfortable life to people. Allah has created the morality of religion suitable for the creation of people. In one verse, Allah reveals this fact :

'' So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah . That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.'' [Qur'an, 30:30]

Therefore, adding rules into the Qur'an that Allah hasn't ordered is an act of polytheists. The situations that invalidate wudu are very clear in the Qur'an. Adding extra rules to wudu is an act of traditional-orthodox religious understanding and it has no value in the sight of Allah. We, as real muslims, should avoid these kinds of bigoted actions that cause people to be detract from the Quran. We, as real muslims, should turn our faces to the book of Allah because we, all are responsible for the Quran just as our beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and we are going to be taken into account from it.

'' And indeed, Quran is a remembrance for you and your people, and you [all] are going to be questioned from it. '' [ Qur'an,43:44 ] ( via there is no contradiction in quran.com )